The Outsiders And Soc's Character Analysis

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Humans tend to judge and hate each other a lot without even having a reason, people are brought up to be those who are different people like to assume and jump to conclusions about people they really don't know. When people are taught to dislike someone because of the way they think they act or because they're different it really causes many problems in the world. Humans should get to know each before making such assumptions. Everyone, although they may seem different, almost everyone is the same when it comes down to the basics of being human . Everyone has emotions, feelings, fears and pains. Although, everyone is basically the same, people have different unique details, characteristics and quirks that make them unique in their own way …show more content…
E Hinton shows the many differences and contrasts between the Greasers and the Soc's, However throughout The Outsiders Pony Boy realizes the two social groups aren't that different, and are similar in more ways than he thought …show more content…
While both groups deal with certain things in similarly outrageous fashions, they handle other things a great deal differently. In most situations the Greasers are quite a bit more emotional with the way they deal with certain conflict, which is quite different from the way the Soc's Handle conflict. The Soc's have to learn to shut off their emotions and maintain a cool, mean exterior for fear of their fellow Soc's thinking they've turned soft. When Randy is talking to Pony Boy about his best friend Bob he starts to get emotional telling Pony Boy stories about his best friend, he then tells Pony Boy that if his other Soc friends ever saw or heard him talking like that they'd think he'd "gone soft" and they'd look down on him. The Greasers also have to look very tough but it's no secret they're more emotional when it comes to certain situations. While on the outside they're mostly different in this aspect in actuality they're all the same, they have the same emotions. It's just that the Soc's care so much about about what people think of them and they feel like they have to live up to that "perfect" view everyone has of them. Them trying to live up to this expectation being held above them is very difficult and causes much

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